Look away when you think – it helps.
According to the BPS Research Digest Blog, a recent study from Sterling University found that looking away when thinking helps (via marginal revolution).
The study was based on 5 year old children – who were asked to answer a range of verbal and arithmetic questions of varying difficulty. Half of them were told to look away when thinking, the other half were not. The children that were asked to look away were doing so more often that the ones that were not told so (52.5 per cent of the time on average vs. 34.7 per cent) and answered more questions correctly (72.5 per cent vs. 55.9 per cent).
We have so much to learn from children…
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